Mystic Aquarium-The President tells of the Aquarium and tells us about the Oceans
Robotics teams-Three high schools, Meet them up close
Rotary Public Image from Nikki Mederos on storytelling
In addition
Rotary International
Awards
The Pettengill and
Osterman
Talks by our clubs on
what they do-Community, International, Club,
Vocational Service
Youth-meet our
Exchange students, Interactors,
Rotaractors
Rotary Builds Business
at scale
March of the
Presidents
Memorial Service
for those we've lost
District Conference Highlights
Friday 4 PM Conference Opening-welcome to Mystic by Rob Simmons-former
Congressman. Ryan Leigh Dostie on her book
Formation
Friday 6:30 PM Dinner
RI awards-Members of our District are honored for what they have done
Ron Beaubien-President Mark Maloney's Representative and RI Director and aide to RI President John Germ,
Sat
8:30 AM Youth Programs-Youth Exchange, Interact, Rotaract
10:20 AM Jeffry Cadorette-RI Director
11 AM Opioids-New
London Overdose Action Team
noon Lunch Paul Harris Lunch Celebrating the Rotary Foundation and District 7980 Role
1:30 PM Toastmasters and Rotary
2 PM Dr. Stephen Coan-Mystic Aquarium
3 PM Robot Teams at House of Friendship
5:30 PM Rotary
Builds Business in House of Friendship
7 PM Presidents march into ballroom with bagpipes
Dinner
Mark Maloney's Representative Ron Beaubien
Pettengill and Osterman club Awards
Jeffry Cadorette-RI Director
Sunday
8:00 AM Business Meeting
8:30 AM Memorial Service
9:30 AM Our clubs talk about what they do!
10:15 AM Nikki Mederos talks about story telling with Robert Friend
11:00 AM Conference Closing Ron Beaubien
11:10 AM Enjoy Mystic
Michael K. McGovern is current Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee and Past Vice President of Rotary International in 2007-08.
Mike joined Rotary in 1986 as a member of the Rotary Club of South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA. He has served as club president, district governor, district foundation chair, Rotarian Action Group chair, international training leader, RI committee member and chair, director of Rotary International and vice president of Rotary. He has served in numerous other positions at the district, zone and international levels and has attended numerous councils on legislation in various roles.
Mike holds the Rotary classification of “Town Government” as the full-time appointed town manager of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was previously president of the Maine Municipal Association and has served on regional boards for the United Way and the American Red Cross. Mike is a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation and a recipient of the Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service.
Jeffry Cadorette
Director 2018-20
Rotary Club of Media
Pennsylvania, USA
Jeffry Cadorette had a 25-year career as a physical therapist in private practice as president and CEO of Physical Therapy Associates of Delaware County in Pennsylvania until merging his practice with Riddle Memorial Hospital to form the Riddle Rehabilitation Institute and Riddle Sports Medicine. He is now associate broker and executive vice president at Media Real Estate Co., where he is active in all phases of commercial real estate sales and leasing, tenant representation, and new project development.
A Rotarian since 1977, Cadorette has served RI as a committee member, Council on Legislation delegate, international training leader, seminar trainer, and president’s representative. He was worldwide coordinator of Rotary Foundation alumni coordinators from 2010-11.
Cadorette is a Foundation Benefactor and Major Donor and has received the Citation for Meritorious Service, the Distinguished Service Award, and RI’s Service Above Self Award.
Ryan Dostie-Youth Exchange alum, Global Scholar, Author
Talking about the Effect of Rotary on her
Ryan Leigh Dostie goes by Ryan Leigh Dostie only in written work because her mother christened her with an extremely masculine first name, and Ryan without the Leigh seemed kind of confusing on a book cover. She secretly believes her name is the reason she joined the military, because names have that kind of formative power. She’s always been a writer, if you consider a short story in second-grade with the dubious plot of a girl making best friends with a wild mountain lion as “writing.” On her elementary school bucket list were four items: go to college, travel, become an author, have a horse. Ryan is working real hard on getting that horse.
She loves to travel and once wanted to visit every major city in the world. Now she would just like to see the countryside of new places and discover paths less traveled. Maybe that’s because she’s learned the beauty of a place is in its raw, untouched landscape, or maybe it’s because she suddenly doesn’t like crowds. With age comes agoraphobia. More accurately, with war comes agoraphobia.
Ryan has studied six languages (Japanese, Persian-Farsi, Dari, French, Ancient Greek) but only her mother says Ryan speaks six languages, because honestly Ryan has forgotten almost of all that, save for some conversational Japanese.
As far as hobbies go, Ryan likes to pick things up and put them down, preferably heavy and slowly (i.e. Olympic Weightlifting), but will move faster if her trainer yells loud enough (i.e. Crossfit). She loves to read, but will never admit to how little she actually does, because it’s shameful. While a journalist and photographer in the Connecticut National Guard, Ryan learned she really enjoys photography and maybe she’s even good at it. It's pretty amazing what you can do with an automatic setting on expensive cameras these days.
Ryan secretly loves Urban Fantasy because she has an unhealthy obsession with the ancient world and its impact on modern society and religions, and what better genre to explore such delightful connections? Ryan will happily regale you with tales of powerful, ancient deities, and how the biggest war god was originally a woman. Yet her current works revolve around women in the military and combat, because women are there, they exist, and have for a very long time. She would like to add her voice to literature regarding the “The Long War,” America’s ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ryan has a beautiful, adventurous daughter, who has a delightful passion for horses (this is how Ryan hopes to trick her husband into getting that horse), as well as big dogs (Ryan wants another dog, too). Ryan is married to a Marine, whose ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome is probably the exact thing Ryan needs in a man and husband. He’s a devoted father, hard working teacher, volunteer fireman, EMT, and often caretaker of all household animals. We understand his reluctance for more animals. We will persevere.
Video at New Haven book store
Interview with Ryan Leigh Dostie onWNYC by Alison Stewart
June 7, 2019
Book by Ryan Dostie Formation-A womans memoir of Stepping out of Line
A Talk on Opioids Treatment-Jennifer Muggeo and Carol Jones
For almost three years, the City of New London, Ledge Light
Health District, Alliance for Living and many other community organizations,
first responders. government agencies, individuals with lived experience
and families from New London
and surrounding towns formed the Overdose Action Team (OAT), which is focused
on improving local response to the opioid epidemic through data sharing and
coordinating intervention efforts.
The OAT was awarded one of
only 13 grants in the country in 2018 through the federal High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program. As a result of this funding, three Recovery
Navigators were deployed in locations through the city where data shows the
highest numbers of overdoses. Since the project began, the navigators have
engaged over 300 people, with many of those contacted initiating medically
based treatment as a result. The program is so successful that the grant was
almost doubled and the work expanded to other Southeastern
Connecticut communities. We currently have 5 Recovery Navigators
working in the community.
Talk on the Environment, the
Oceans and STEM
STEPHEN M. COAN,
PH.D. of Mystic Aquarium
Dr. Stephen M. Coan is president and chief executive officer of
Sea Research Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which operates
Mystic Aquarium and JASON Learning. Committed to protecting the ocean
environment, Sea Research Foundation accomplishes this through public
engagement in conservation, STEM education, and research programs related to
the ocean environment.
Mystic Aquarium is the largest cultural attraction in Southeastern New England with annual attendance of
750,000. JASON Learning is a digital based STEM curriculum that annually
reaches 3 million students throughout the world.
Dr. Coan has been an officer of Sea Research Foundation
since 2001. He was appointed chief operating officer in 2004, and completed a
radical restructuring of the organization’s financial platform, including
reduction of $20 million in debt. He became president and CEO in 2006.
Under his stewardship, Sea Research Foundation has enjoyed record
setting fund raising, and took over management of JASON Learning from National
Geographic Society in 2010. In 2014, Mystic Aquarium was awarded the
National Medal for Museum and Library Service at the White House in recognition
of its unique array of community and national programs serving at-risk youth
and people with special needs.
Prior to joining Sea Research Foundation, Dr. Coan was the chief
education officer of the JASON Foundation for Education, now known as JASON
Learning. He has served as executive director of two educational organizations
and held faculty appointments at Tufts
University, Bentley
College and Cambridge College.
He is a trustee of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Horizons in Windham, Conn., the Cal
Ripken Sr. Foundation in Baltimore,
Md., and a founding trustee of
the North American Marine Environment Protection Association.
Dr. Coan earned his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University
and both a Masters in Management degree and a doctorate in social policy from
the Heller Graduate School
at Brandeis.
Mystic Aquarium video
African Penguins at Mystic Aquarium
Robots from High School Robot
Teams for you and your kids to play
with
On Saturday
Interact and Rotaract
Youth Exchange
On Sunday
The Memorial Service-a moving remembrance of the Rotarians we have lost this year.
Talks by Clubs on What they do really well
Public Image
Nikki Mederos-Public Image Coordinator for Zone 32 and great storyteller.
Niurka “Nikki” Mederos District Governor
North Hudson Rotary Club
401 Gorge Road, Cliffside Park, NJ 07010
A lifelong resident of Hudson and Bergen counties, Niurka “Nikki” Mederos is the Director of the External Affairs/Outreach Community at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, NJ. During her 35-year tenure at the medical facility, Ms. Mederos has worked within local communities to promote the hospital’s services, build community partnerships and provide healthcare outreach programs to local residents. Additionally, she has organized dozens of community health fairs and health screenings to connect with thousands of members from the community.
Rest of Sunday
Find a Restaurant for Lunch with Some Rotarians
Go to Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport, Naval Museum or...
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